Snowflakes on Saturday.

Happy Saturday! Today I am sharing a clean and simple (for me) card inspired by a few challenges!  

Addicted to CAS Metallic Challenge - I’ve used metallic silver twine.

Color Dare challenge #681 inspired my palette of blues in Misty Moonlight and Cloud Cover.

Tic Tac Toe challenge #ttyc286 left hand row of Texture created with using layers in my focal image, White colour and Plaid in my Forever Plaid embossing folder. 

I’m getting inky with Delicate Pines stamp set and Elegant Pine snowflakes dies, Forever Plaid embossing folder, Misty Moonlight and Cloud Cover inks and some silver metallic twine and rhinestones for the snowy vibe bling! 

Came together as a very pretty “warmest winter wishes” card

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret

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Slimline Sunday

Welcome to another edition of Slimline Sunday. Today’s slimline design came together through inspiration from a few different challenges.

Cupcake Inspiration had a challenge #CI629 to create something that makes you smile - and anything that sparkle’s makes me smile!

My sketch layout is thanks to Atlantic Hearts challenge #653. I flipped the sketch orientation to landscape to fit the slimline design and the focal point of leaves/sprigs and a sentiment.

CAS on Friday has a birthday card challenge which prompted my sentiment choice “Because it’s your birthday”.

Played some Tic Tac Toe challenge again #tttc282 but this time with a diagonal of Leaves, for my Free I have used vellum and die cuts for the win. 

I am playing with my new goodies from the November Online Exclusive: The Friendly Foliage stamps & dies, The Words of Beauty stamps & dies. Also playing with the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder, Traditional Sparking Sequins dots and Versamark and gold embossing powder. 

I just love how it’s come together. The foliage is just so beautiful and love the sophisticated look of the clean and simple gold and white palette - it’s so sparkly! 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

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Case-ing Tuesday #531

Here with another bonus edition on the blog.

Playing along with the Case-ing Tuesday challenge over on Facebook. Casing the adorable Gingerbread card. I decided to flip the sketch to landscape instead of portrait. 

I’m playing along with the Elegant Pine stamp set. I started out just choosing the paper from this suite during preorder but the more examples I saw I added the stamp set to my cart when they had the 15% off sale last week. I’ve used the Everyday Arches and a sentiment from the Greetings for You ephemera. I just love the warm tones of the paper! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin’ 

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Elegant Pines Snowflakes for Slimline Sunday

Welcome to another edition of Slimline Sunday where my design focus is around creating 91/4” x 4” cards. Slimline style is perfect for those who want more space to play in their design as well as for cards where you want more room to write personal messages.

My layout was inspires by a card sketch over at Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers challenge #BYSHC61

My colour palette was inspired by CAS colours & sketches challenge #569.  I had intended to try to keep my design CAS but got carried away so am just using the colours! 😂 

Playing with the Forever Plaid 3D embossing folder, Elegant Pine Snowflakes DSP, Gold foil paper, Greetings for You ephemera pack, Secret Sea hand coloured rhinestones, gold bakers twine, a brayer and some fussy cutting of the DSP.

Final product ended up being a great holiday vibe with the warm tones of the Pecan pie plaid background and the dark Secret Sea with hints of Mossy Green. I fussy cut out a snowflake and popped up on a gold foil and whisper white circle and added the twine and rhinestones for some more pops of texture and bling. Finished off from an ephemera sentiment. 

This DSP is SO pretty and great not only for holiday projects but winter birthdays and scrapbook layouts - the photos don’t pick up the tiny details in the designs. I love the Evergreen Pine snowflakes just so unique.

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

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Another Prairie Grass Sunset

Today I am playing along with three challenges to create the inspiration for my card design.

The Cupcake Inspiration pastel colour palette challenge #CI165 , The Color Hues challenge use orange and green #TCH117 and TGIF challenge has  a use arches #TGIF540.

I decided to use the colour palette of Petal Pink, Lemon Lolly and Soft Sea Foam paired with the Everyday Arches dies. I am was inspired by a design from Leonie Stuart on Instagram that incorporated the Mini Corrugated Embossing folder for some texture behind the arches and the Prairie Grass stamp set. 

I loved the soft sunset vibes that came with the blending of the 3 colours and was surprised how the orange evolved using the Petal Pink.

Not to toot my own horn but end results were so pretty! I decided to blend my sentiment as well because the white looked too stark against the softer colours and the addition of the hand drawn birds was a Bob Ross moment where I got ink where I didn’t want it so needed to cover it up l. So as Bob always said “we don’t make mistakes we make happy accidents.” The birds totally go with the vibe and look intentional. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

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